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It's 1977. Youth unemployment is at an all-time high and the pound is at an all-time low. Paul, Jan and Louis are bored, broke and demoralized by the hand that they've been dealt. How will these young lads fair with the odds stacked against them? How will they cope?

Cut off from society with no-where to turn, the play resonates with a modern audience who will no doubt recognize the disaffected youth of 1970s Britain. Barrie Keeffe's tragically dark play crackles with tension throughout, building to a twisted and dramatic end.

This programme text edition was published to coincide with the revival of the play by Tooting Arts Club on 3rd October 2015, staged at the former Central St Martins School of Art on the Charing Cross Road, London.

Barrie Keeffe (b. 1945) is a well-known English dramatist and writer, whose plays include Only a Game (1973), A Sight of Glory (1975), Here Comes the Sun (1976), My Girl (1989), I Only Want to Be With You (1995), The Long Good Friday (1997), Shadows on the Sun (2001), Still Killing Time (2006) and two trilogies: Gimme Shelter and Barbarians. He has also been resident writer at the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Shaw Theatre and the Soho Poly Theatre and Associate Writer at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East. He taught dramatic writing at City University in London and in 2010 he gained the title of Doctor of Letters by the University of Warwick.

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Barbarians

Barbarians

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